PDF Title: What is the Secret to Marriage?
Author: Ron Christian
Summary#
What is the Secret to Marriage? is a reflective Christian writing in which Ron Christian maintains that a great marriage is built on mutual honor, friendship, encouragement, prayer, laughter, and the flow of God’s self-giving love between husband and wife. The piece asserts that marriage partners should build one another up rather than criticize, belittle, compete with, or wound each other through cruel humor. Ron Christian contends that when both partners focus on pleasing Christ, they gain the desire and motivation to serve one another with genuine love. The writing also proposes that couples should learn to laugh together through the ordinary, odd, embarrassing, and difficult moments of life, because shared laughter can help lighten burdens, soften hardship, and strengthen companionship. Its central message is that a Christ-centered marriage grows strong when both partners love God supremely, treat each other as best friends, pray together, laugh together, and become channels of divine-type love to one another.